Early one morning in 2012, a lady walking her dogs noticed a male vagrant (whom she thought was sleeping) lying face down on the Queens Park Soccer Field. The night before had been cool but not cold or wet. Other walkers noticed the figure later on, but it was at around eight a.m. that somebody tried to rouse him and found him to be deceased. There were no signs of foul play.
The SAP were contacted and they duly arrived. An arriving group of school children from a neaby school had to be rapidly diverted by their teacher back from where they had come. Some time mid-morning, the corpse was removed by the mortuary van.
This sad but factual event illustrates what the ultimate fate of vagrants in Queens Park often is. Death by exposure to the elements.
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